prismaticbleed | first day of creation (Reply)

First Day of Creation (from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle)

This. This is the sort of religious art that immediately reduces me to sobs. It’s so terrifyingly beautiful. It’s so simple, yet so incomprehensible in its vast meaning, in the cosmic significance of the Truth presented in it, a Truth that children can instinctively comprehend, and which centuries of scholars and philosophers struggle to grasp.

It’s gorgeous. It’s the Hand of God, it’s the waters of chaos, it’s the instant the Creator created– the moment He willed Light into being, moving over the surface of the water, hovering there like a dove, like a breath held in joyous anticipation. The circle, the formless world, the encompassment of everything that was and would soon Be… and all around, light, light, light. New and beautiful and true. The first Day of Creation.

I love this so much.